197996 - printing hangs with background 1x1 image because it creates a continuously growing spool file

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Spiros Ioannou]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030313
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030313

When I try to print this page in both the PS and PCL drivers, with "shrink to
fit" option and "with background colors", the spool file just grows, and mozilla
doesn't respond. I kill mozilla after the spool is about 500MB. Tried with
Gecko/20030313.
BTW, this is my electronic tax income :-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Spiros Ioannou]

Nobody confirmed this..
Anyway, I tried today with 2003072204 and it seems fixed.
Marking as such.

Comment 2

[Spiros Ioannou]

Sorry my mistake, this bug isn't fixed, I tried printing without background
colors. Without bg colors it prints ok, with bg colors it never prints.

Comment 3

[Spiros Ioannou]

This bug still exists. Please somebody confirm it.
Try to print the ducument with bg colors+pictures on.

Comment 4

[James Napolitano]

Confirming.  I tried this with 'print to file', and my computer eventually ran
out of hard drive space and the print failed!  I tried it again and my computer
froze up from lack of memory!  I did get the impression though that progress was
slowly being made and if my computer had enough resources available, the print
job would finish eventually.  So perhaps this is more of a performance issue
than an outright hang.  It may have something to do with all the tables or
international characters in the webpage.

(and yes, many bug reports go for months without being noticed)

Comment 5

[James Napolitano]

This may be a dupe of bug 77155.

Comment 6

[Spiros Ioannou]

Confirming with Gecko/20050609.
Now there is a window entitled "Print"  and the progress get stuck to "Preparing"

Comment 7

[Marius Strumyla]

Attachment: Background Image for testcase

Comment 8

[Marius Strumyla]

Attachment: Simplified testcase from the URL

Comment 9

[Marius Strumyla]

This testcase hangs my Firefox when printing with Print Background
(colors&images) selected. Tested on win2k with 1.5beta1, 1.0.6, and latest trunk
20050908.

Print Preview works ok. The printer is HP LaserJet 4000 PCL 5e

Comment 10

[Marius Strumyla]

The problem seems to be the 1x1 background image. I increased the image size to
10x10 and the printing didn't hang .

Comment 11

[Marius Strumyla]

I suggest renaming the bug to "printing hangs with background 1x1 image"

Comment 12

[Marius Strumyla]

I'll try to nominate this bug for Firefox 1.5. It is pretty serious and has a
simple testcase.

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

no patch, not a regression over 1.0, and not something we would stop ship for. 
Hopefully someone will work on this for the next release but it's too late for
this one.

Comment 14

[Spiros Ioannou]

Changed summary as requested. I confirm the bug still exists in firefox 1.5.0.2.
Should I submit a new bug for firefox? I changed branch to "other branch" since I cannot find 1.5.0.x.

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM on trunk using shrink to fit - url and testcase
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070130 Minefield/3.0a2pre

please reopen if this fails for you using trunk build